[–] 2 points 10 hours ago*

i'd remove Chicago and DC, and add Philadelphia.
DC is fine but as soon as you leave downtown it becomes barely better than the american norm (the subway is honestly hilarious, "downtown largo" yeah right lmao by that logic NYC is "downtown USA").
Basically the same with Chicago, it's "fine" but very quickly the subway just stops and it's back to an endless sea of dogshit suburbia.

NYC and Boston are the only ones i would confidently call "actually acceptable", and even then Boston only qualifies because the downtown-fenway-brookline corridor is effectively a transplanted piece of NYC..

Like, fuck.. Literally just hoboken is a more proper place than all the other american cities, it's insane.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 day ago*

    if you're going to nitpick then make sure you're not technically incorrect.
    You're talking about the SI system, which is a metric system but not the metric system.

    Quoth wikipedia (yes wikipedia isn't a source, but i'm not the one who started nitpicking so i don't have to be nitpick proof :^)
    "... metric system refers to ones that standardise a set of base units and a nomenclature describing relatively large and small quantities using decimal-based multiplicative unit prefixes (such as kilo and milli). The International System of Units (SI) is a good example, and there are other widely accepted systems (less popular than SI) mainly used in specific fields, such as the Gaussian units for electromagnetism."

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  • [–] 9 points 1 day ago

    I will never understand this argument, how could any temperature scale be more intuitive than "0 is where water freezes, 100 is where it boils"??

    Those two things are utterly universal unless you happen to live high up on a mountain (in which case you'll be off by a couple degrees, oh the horror) and quite possibly the most relevant temperatures for us.

    The only other objective and universal temperatures i can think of would be when skin burns and when you get frostbite or something, the latter of which is still questionably objective and both of which are.. impractical to use for calibration..

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